"Ideas For A 15mm NON-Humanoid Lagoon Terror?" Topic

This is its hunting ground:

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Must be:

1) Slightly larger than human-sized (8-10 foot or so), but NON-humanoid in shape; and
2) Aquatic for the most part, but climbs up to snatch up humans in the stilt homes and surfaces to attack people on canoes and boats.

So, any suggestions/ideas (like concept art) on what such a thing WOULD look like?

Thanks,

Dan

Easy one – octopons:

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Octopons are great minis:
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An eel type of thing that can leave the water and slither around like a snake or a shark-ish type of thing that can waddle around on its fins like a seal.

Hmmm.

Sundance,

How about a giant-sized version of these guys?

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Wow, check out these other links I found:

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QUESTION:

Other than increase size, what could I do to make it more than just a simple copy of the fish?

Thanks,

Dan

I like the fin on the back, but maybe you could widen the torso and flatten it a bit, put more traditional fish eyes on the sides of its head rather than the eyes on top of its head. Give it a mouth full of teeth – or not. There's something almost as terrifying in being sucked in and swallowed alive, or gummed to death. Or give it eel teeth made for grinding rather then ripping like a shark. You could make the fins longer and put a joint in them so they bend like arms (but don't make them arms). Maybe give it a whip tail like a lizard rather than a fin, or make the bottom tail fin a split fin so it can almost walk on fours (that would especially be cool if you gave it the jointed forefins).

There was a show called River Monsters on Animal Planet that talked about giant catfish in the Congo River.

What if your monster were a giant walking catfish:
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How about a giant amoeba that looks somewhat like an oil slick floating on the surface of the water?

You could make a few of them very easily using putty…gloss paints for the shiny aspects. One casting could be "puddle mode". Another could be a climbing version. Maybe one last one pulling a partial figure into itself for effect?

Seconded on the amoeba idea… I'm not a Stephen King fan in general, but 'The Raft' is a terrific story. (there's a very good adaptation in the second 'Creepshow' movie.)

A giant toad-like amphibian might fit the bill… grossly bloated and warty, with a long, sticky tongue to shoot out and grab people.

Giant leech? Maybe something like the toothy horror that ingests the cook in 'King Kong'. Able to extend its body much further than it first appears to snatch its victims.

How about a giant water-insect? There are some really aggressive little critters such as Caddis-fly larvae – a segmented worm-like creature that builds itself a kind of 'armoured sleeve' by spinning a mucous tube and sticking gravel to it. Some types also spin underwater 'webs' with this mucous.
(this one's a bonus, because when it develops from the larval stage, you get 'Lagoon Terror 2: Flying Death'.)

Oooo…those are great ideas, too! I like the giant leech!

Howsabout one of these: link

Toobs are the answer, perhaps? Most of these minis are 1.5".

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And if interested in a creature that "makes sense" for a stilt hose feeding ground link snatching them up with the long snake neck.

If these fit then this is a must include link

Good God, is that an alligator menage a trois I see in the top row?

LOL it is a miniature version of the larger model…mother gator with young on the back.

How about one of Khurasan's Sponks?

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how about planet15 range from khurasan--green ooze, plutonians,or creature from clambake beach
or the big snail
really you need to get over your blatant anti-hmanoidism
viva la rubbersuit alien

Norman,

Is this the scene you mean?

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Dan

That's the cheeky little scamps, CC!

"Carnictus", according to the blurb. That scene horrified my GF at the cinema.

I'd give them slug-like 'wall-crawling' ability for clinging to the underside of stilt-houses.

Always plenty of little plastic sea creatures around. Buy an ocopus and a lobster, cut off some tentacles and claws, which then paint in the same color scheme. Make some eyeballs from green stuff, and have the various parts rising independently out of a watery base. I've done it, and it looks good.

Howzabout the critter from "The Host?"

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Sculptor up!

Wow. What a chimera of things that is!

Dan

Yes a Gwoemul (host monster) would be perfect…great movie…you get monster right up front…no hiding in shadows, just pow here you go YouTube link

Are there any images of what the Waterworld creature looked like?

Dan

This one? link picture

WOW. That is one weird-looking "fish"!

The body looks almost like that of a Sturgeon, but the mouth looks like that of a Goliath Tigerfish.

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Dan